Why is everyone who votes UKIP so often assumed to be right wing? And why are members of the Liberal Democratic Party described so often as Liberals?

It is members of the EU-sceptic Liberal Party – www.liberal.org.uk – who are Liberals.

I voted UKIP but am a Liberal who re-joined the Liberal Party when, in opposition to the Liberal Democratic Party, it quite rightly rejected joining the Euro. The preamble to the constitution of the Liberal Party calls for liberty, property and security for all, as it did before the elitist pro-EU SDP leaders came along and persuaded the merged Liberal Democratic Party to drop the call for property for all.

Like UKIP, the Liberal Party wants the UK to leave the EU “ever closer union”. We want to rule ourselves in the UK. But unlike UKIP, which would abolish Inheritance Tax in order to go back to some kind of quasi-feudal and increasingly unequal country, the Liberal Party wants to leave the EU in order to make ours a far fairer country, a genuine ‘opportunity society’, with far greater equality of opportunity for all in health, education and the inheritance of capital.

Other countries may then follow our example of reformed liberal capitalism with universal inheritance, which is not something which could be introduced in the whole of the EU but needs the intra-national empathy of the UK.

DANE CLOUSTON
The Campaign for Universal Inheritance
Ascott Manor
Stadhampton




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